Ableton Live 8 is the latest instalment of Ableton’s renowned software that is constantly altering the way DJs, producers and live performers make their music. Providing a comprehensive environment for writing, producing and performing music, Ableton Live 8 is a digital audio workstation (DAW) that is extremely powerful and easy to use.
Ableton Live 8 is packed full of tools to take your compositions, songwriting, recordings and remixing to another level. Live is the only DAW with the ‘Session View’, a unique grid for recording and playing musical ideas and phrases. It acts as a sketchpad for your creative instincts and is nonlinear so you can record and play back your ideas however you want. In this view you never have to stop the music and you can drop-in loops and samples in real-time transforming your computer into a musical instrument. It is a smart, intuitive and flexible way to write and record music and gives you the freedom to improvise. Live 8 also has an ‘Arrangement View’ which is a complete music production environment. This environment is well-suited to ‘traditional’ recording, arranging and mixing. Both views interact with one another working on the same principle of creative, intuitive music-making.
Included in this current version of Live are a wealth of new techniques and improvements including the new groove engine which can add life and swing to straight sequences. The much requested Looper gives sound-on-sound looping which can be operated without touching the computer and doesn’t have the limitations of loop pedals. There are several powerful new effects with Live 8 including Vocoder, Multiband dynamics, Overdrive, Limiter and frequency shifter. Several most-wanted enhancements are included such as real-time crossfades in Arrangement View, enhanced MIDI editing and a screen magnifier.
Ableton Live 8 offers powerful real-time editing functions with a whole host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs at your disposal. Also included are built-in software instruments and Live works seamlessly with controller hardware and multiple plug-in formats. It is straightforward to assign MIDI controls and supports among others AIFF, WAV, MP3 and AU effects and instruments.
Whether you are a bedroom musician, budding DJ, composer or music producer, Ableton Live 8 will provide you with the platform to explore and realise your music ideas and ambitions.
The Ableton Live 8 Production and Performance DAW Main Features Include:
- Groove patterns dynamically influence the timing and velocity/volume of audio and MIDI material. This can add life and swing to straight patterns, give a track more drive, or lend a piece an easy, laid-back feeling.
- Apply groove patterns to any audio or MIDI clips in real time. Change the feel of the whole piece or just selected clips.
- Choose from an extensive library of groove patterns, captured from songs played by some of music's most original, expressive and soulful drummers.
- Extract groove patterns from any audio or MIDI source to build your own groove library from your favorite tracks.
- Quantize audio and MIDI in real time: non-destructive velocity and timing adjustments for rhythmic correction.
- Randomize audio and MIDI timing for a more human feel.
- Intuitive warping allows you to adjust events on the timeline instead of stretching and squeezing the timeline around the events.
- Transient handles: Live analyzes and assigns handles to the transients in audio files automatically.
- Slice by transient: slice audio to MIDI based on Live 8's new transient analysis.
- Enhanced Beats Warp Mode for improved warping of percussive material and new control options.
- Improved Complex Warp Mode using élastique Pro for warping complex, polyphonic material with fewer artifacts.
- One-touch operation: Looper is set up for remote operation, so you can record, overdub, undo and more using a single footswitch (not included) and without touching the computer.
- Endless overdubs, tape-loop style for infinite improv jams.
- First loop sync: Live reads the tempo from the length of the first loop you record and automatically syncs up. This eliminates timing issues and lets you record without the click.
- Simple loop management: drag and drop a loop from Looper into a clip slot to make a clip; drag a clip back again to reload it into Looper.
- Multiple Looper sync lets you run as many Loopers as you want without any synchronization headaches.
- Crossfades in Arrangement View
- Enhanced MIDI editor
- Group tracks
- Multi-parameter manipulation
- Magnify the user interface
- Browser waveform display
- Plug-in parameters and many more...
- Mac System Requirements: Any G4 or faster (Intel Mac recommended), 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended), Mac OS X 10.3.9 (10.4 or later recommended), QuickTime 6.5 or higher, DVD-ROM drive
- Windows System Requirements: 1.5 GHz CPU or faster, 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended), Windows XP or Windows Vista, Windows compatible sound card (ASIO driver support recommended), QuickTime 6.5 or higher, DVD-ROM drive
Ableton Live 8 Music Creation Production & Performance DAW (code 63524)
Live 8 includes a wealth of new techniques and improvements with a new groove engine, revamped warping, live looping, new effects, crossfades in the Arrangement View and a reworked MIDI editor
£299.00 (inc vat)